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Congress, administration will likely get away with it

I saw a robin chase a chipmunk all the way across Delta Avenue the other day. Its beak was aiming at the chipmunk’s neck, pecking away, knocking it off its feet. But the chipmunk got away by crawling...

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Reality – and what the government says – clash

After reading the article “NKY suffers shortage of nursing home beds” (July 14), I think someone in our state government is putting out bad information. If we have a shortage as reported, then why does...

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Elected officials must think the public is stupid

How stupid and naïve do the oil companies and our elected official think we really are? I’m referring to the recent cover and subsequent page and a half story on the influence of big oil money in the...

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Not government’s role to grant rights based on wants

Is it The Enquirer’s agenda to promote so-called “same sex marriage?” Is there a coordinated effort to create compassion and empathy for so-called same sex marriages before a possible state-wide...

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Look what Great Society has brought us today

The letter “Not government’s role to grant rights based on wants” (July 22) focused on same-sex marriage but also alluded to families failing to care for and properly raise their children. The advent...

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Government ought to keep out of marriage

Nowhere in the Constitution is the word or concept of marriage mentioned.   Marriage is a religious covenant established by the church and defined by the church as a union of one man and one woman who,...

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Work together as a team, not warring factions

We the people would be well-served to start looking at how efficiently or inefficiently our society runs and tracing a line back to our educational system and seeing if our educational system is a...

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Default is no laughing matter

I’ve been reading some early American history and was struck by the following excerpt regarding emerging American government: “In America, therefore, representative government meant something different...

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If only young people were as interested in government as they are celebrity

“Current events” really confuses me sometimes to the point of frustration because of my lack of knowledge of what is “hip,” as we used to say. I suppose that my social standing and recognition could...

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Quality of laws matters much more than quantity

You can include me as an American that distrusts our dysfunctional government (“Many distrust government to handle emergency” Oct. 23). I think it is especially sad, however, that we have an “educated”...

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Health site’s delay shows total lack of oversight

Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight, said that it is common government practice to employ multiple-vendor contracts in cases where they use the same goods over and over...

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Drowning in a sea of insurance paperwork

My current experience with government mandated administrative requirements for government supported health programs make me believe that the new OBAMACARE will impose similar wasteful requirements for...

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Government can’t do anything right

Many of us wonder can the government do anything right, or are they the gang who can’t shoot straight? I could list all the failure’s of this current administration but let us look at the successes and...

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Statehouse business needs more transparency

Ever wonder how sausage is made at the Ohio Statehouse? You’d be hard pressed to find out. It appears to me that most of it is unwelcoming of transparency and even hinders participation. A group of us...

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What are the reasons for bank and market failure?

The only proper name to give to the SEC fines levied on 5/3 Bank and its executives is extortion. After years of lowering eligibility standards and establishing quotas that forced banks to provide...

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The people always came first for Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela’s power came from his dignity. When asked what he would like to see happen in the Soweto region of South Africa, his answer was “to get the garbage removed.” His country, rich with gold,...

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Supply vs. demand will dominate dental coverage

In her letter on Jan. 19, Cathy Levine of UHCAN Ohio is correct in stating, “coverage does not necessarily mean access” to dental care for those with government paid health care, be it Medicare,...

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Should government preside over life and death issues?

Two heart rending stories have been in news recently. Parents wanted to keep their brain dead child alive. They were allowed to take the child to another hospital. In another case the husband of a...

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Government doesn’t create human rights; it protects them

Regarding “Abortion is a medical, not a political, issue”: of course it’s not a political issue. Rather, it shouldn’t be. Moreover, this right is not something the Supreme Court created with Roe v....

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Attractive politics went away with self-interest

  I read the editorial, “Make government attractive again” (Feb. 24), and agree with much of it. However, I thought that the idea that people have not been interested in serving the government since...

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